References: Bibliography


 


Please be patient, I'll add more info than you can read 😏

 

This is an article I refer to over and over because I believe it perfectly embodies my sense of identity.

It may be difficult for NT to understand the difference that this sense of identity makes when looking at dissociative disorders. Partly because the cause of dissociation and trauma can differ from that of NTs, but also how multiplicity is experienced is affected by this Inner-focused perspective.

How autistic people experience and recover from trauma is different from NTs. Here are some very interesting pointers.

Again, looking at the causes of trauma, our different perspective and egalitarian attitude exacerbates the effect of much of the prejudice and discrimination we suffer because it is directly opposed to our inner sense of right and wrong.


  • van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The haunted self: Structural dissociation and the treatment of chronic traumatization. W W Norton & Co.


Available for free download :

Book: https://www.docdroid.net/arPAtHT/van-der-hart-2006-the-haunted-self-pdf  

Review: https://www.academia.edu/20487002/The_haunted_self_structural_dissociation_and_the_treatment_of_chronic_traumatization

Abstract

Life is an ongoing struggle for patients who have been chronically traumatized. They typically have a wide array of symptoms, often classified under different combinations of comorbidity, which can make assessment and treatment complicated and confusing for the therapist. Many patients have substantial problems with daily living and relationships, including serious intrapsychic conflicts and maladaptive coping strategies. Their suffering essentially relates to a terrifying and painful past that haunts them. Even when survivors attempt to hide their distress beneath a facade of normality (a common strategy), therapists often feel besieged by their many symptoms and serious pain. It is a small wonder, then, that many survivors of chronic traumatization show little if any gain, even after consulting several therapists, and that quite a few have been labeled as untreatable or treatment resistant. In this book, three leading researchers and clinicians share what they have learned from treating and studying chronically traumatized individuals across more than 65 years of collective experience. Based on the theory of structural dissociation of the personality in combination with a Janetian psychology of action, the authors have developed a model of phase-oriented treatment that focuses on the identification and treatment of structural dissociation and related maladaptive mental and behavioral actions. The foundation of this approach is to support patients in learning more effective mental and behavioral actions that will enable them to become more adaptive in life and to resolve their structural dissociation. This principle implies an overall therapeutic goal of raising the integrative capacity in order to cope with the demands of daily life and deal with the haunting remnants of the past, with the "unfinished business" of traumatic memories. Clinicians, students of clinical psychology and psychiatry, researchers, and all those interested in adult survivors of chronic child abuse and neglect will find helpful insights and tools that may make treatment more effective and efficient, and more tolerable for the suffering patient. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2016 APA, all rights reserved)

  • van der Kolk, B. A. (2014). The body keeps the score: Brain, mind, and body in the healing of trauma. Viking.

Available for free download: https://app.box.com/s/0t352y734r8kso7rkasbvc8s5dxgv5dj

Abstract

This profoundly humane book offers a sweeping new understanding of the causes and consequences of trauma, offering hope and clarity to everyone touched by its devastation. Trauma has emerged as one of the great public health challenges of our time, not only because of its well-documented effects on combat veterans and on victims of accidents and crimes, but because of the hidden toll of sexual and family violence and of communities and schools devastated by abuse, neglect, and addiction. Drawing on more than thirty years at the forefront of research and clinical practice, Bessel van der Kolk shows that the terror and isolation at the core of trauma literally reshape both brain and body. New insights into our survival instincts explain why traumatized people experience incomprehensible anxiety and numbing and intolerable rage, and how trauma affects their capacity to concentrate, to remember, to form trusting relationships, and even to feel at home in their own bodies. Having lost the sense of control of themselves and frustrated by failed therapies, they often fear that they are damaged beyond repair. The Body Keeps the Score is the inspiring story of how a group of therapists and scientists-together with their courageous and memorable patients—has struggled to integrate recent advances in brain science, attachment research, and body awareness into treatments that can free trauma survivors from the tyranny of the past. These new paths to recovery activate the brain's natural neuroplasticity to rewire disturbed functioning and rebuild step by step the ability to "know what you know and feel what you feel." They also offer experiences that directly counteract the helplessness and invisibility associated with trauma, enabling both adults and children to reclaim ownership of their bodies and their lives. Readers will come away from this book with awe at human resilience and at the power of our relationships—whether in the intimacy of home or in our wider communities—to both hurt and heal. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved)

  • Long version of paper in “Aspects of Consciousness: Essays on Physics, Death and the Mind.” Ingrid Fredricksson, editor. McFarland, 2013. - Consciousness and Consequences The physical nature of mind James E. Beichler, Ph.D.

Available for free download: https://www.academia.edu/7780617/Consciousness_and_Consequences_The_physical_nature_of_mind

Abstract

Science investigates phenomena in nature that are either experienced or observed by people. However, some special classes of phenomena are generally considered outside of the realm of science if not just plain unscientific, i.e., unworthy of scientific investigation by the majority of scientists. Science has generally dismissed or ignored any phenomena directly associated with mind or consciousness, which amounts to a scientific bias against these concepts. Even psychology, the science of mind, neither directly studies nor even speculates on the ultimate nature of mind and consciousness, but hides behind behaviourism. This shortcoming of science is actually a historical artifact inherited from the earlier break between science and religion and the subsequent separation of human thought into the two realms of MIND and MATTER, but it is also likely that the unintended consequences of adopting a physical theory or model of consciousness are more than science has been willing to accept. The present shortcomings of science in this regard were institutionalized at the end of the eighteenth century by the adoption of positivistic philosophies by the majority of scientists and scholars. But nature has had her way in spite of the best intentions and efforts of science to the contrary: New research and recent discoveries point directly to the conclusion that science has reached a point in its normal advancement beyond which it cannot pass until it distinguishes between matter and the consciousness that is perceiving and interpreting matter, thus necessitating the first ever theories of both consciousness and matter. Keywords: Life, Mind, Consciousness, matter, survival of consciousness, afterlife, quantum theory, relativity, four-dimensional, space, five-dimensional, space-time, metric, memory, electromagnetism, scalar potential, vector potential, magnetic potential, physical reality

  • Ross, C. A. (1997). Dissociative identity disorder: Diagnosis, clinical features, and treatment of multiple personality (2nd ed.). John Wiley & Sons Inc.

Available for free download: https://archive.org/details/dissociativeiden0000ross/page/10/mode/2up

Abstract

Since the publication of Colin A. Ross's influential work Multiple Personality Disorder in 1989, this challenging field has evolved rapidly--with new thinking, new research, and a new name: dissociative identity disorder (DID). Keeping pace with these developments, this retitled Second Edition has been skilfully revised and expanded to offer a comprehensive, detailed, and fully up-to-date grounding in the history, diagnosis, and treatment of Did.

Readers will find three new chapters covering epidemiology, a sound critique of sceptics of DID, and the problem of attachment to the perpetrator and the locus of control shift. There is also a fresh look at the pathways leading to DID, a discussion of the false memory controversy, and more, with material throughout based on the latest research and the author's extensive clinical and forensic experience.

By providing an in-depth examination of this complex illness, Dissociative Identity Disorder not only facilitates a deeper understanding of people who have used dissociation to cope with years of childhood physical, sexual, and emotional abuse, but also reveals new insights into many other psychiatric disorders in which dissociation plays a role. Like Multiple Personality Disorder, this updated volume is an authoritative and indispensable reference for psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric nurses, social workers and other mental health professionals, as well as researchers in these fields.

"Ross provides a comprehensive and interesting account of the history of MPD, dispelling many myths. He presents new insight into the treatment of MPD, with information about such concerns as how to talk to a patient, how to schedule your time, and how to keep your private and [professional] lives separate. . . . Multiple Personality Disorder will be an invaluable addition to the reference libraries of sexual abuse clinics, child abuse agencies, and correctional facilities, as well as clinicians." --Family Violence Bulletin

Not yet reviewed

  • van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Steele, K. (2006). The treatment of traumatic memories: Synthesis, realization, and integration. In B. van der Kolk, A. C. McFarlane, & L. Weisaeth (Eds.), Traumatic stress: The effects of overwhelming experience on mind, body, and society (pp. 279-294). Guilford Press. Available here
  • Nijenhuis, E. R. S., van der Hart, O., & Steele, K. (2010). Theory of dissociation: Affect, language, and the self. In J. Aronson (Ed.), Affective neuroscience and the development of the self (pp. 355-378). Routledge.
  • Steele, K., van der Hart, O., & Nijenhuis, E. R. S. (2005). Phase-oriented treatment of structural dissociation in complex traumatization: Overcoming trauma-related phobias. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 6(3), 11-53.
  • Van der Hart, O., Nijenhuis, E. R. S., & Solomon, R. (2010). Dissociation of the personality in complex trauma-related disorders and EMDR: Theoretical considerations. Journal of EMDR Practice and Research, 4(2), 76-92.

 

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